Take Me....

Okay...so you're just minding your own business, briskly walking to work in the AM after getting off the subway when -- out of nowhere -- an urban rat darts across the pavement, nearly missing the tip of your shoe. What's your first reaction? Do you:

Leap a few feet into the air?

Grab onto the closest tree trunk?

Shriek like a little school girl?

Thrust your foot upward in a lame attempt to send the now-long-gone rat careening through the air like a football?

For some, perhaps the correct answer is "all the above" and yet what we tend to forget about the whiskered, turbo-chomping rodents is that they aren't the vile creatures that we mistakenly presume them to be. Read On!